Scottish women film directors

The list Scottish women film directors includes Karen Gillan, Marianna Palka, Lynne Ramsay, May Miles Thomas and Alison Peebles. The list consists of 17 members.

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Karen Gillan

Scottish actress (born 1987)

Overview: Karen Sheila Gillan (born 28 November 1987) is a Scottish actress and filmmaker. Gillan gained recognition for her work in British film and television, particularly for playing Amy Pond, a primary companion ...

Date of birth: 28 November 1987

Age: 37

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

Partner: Nick Kocher (Married)

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Best Female Newcomer Empire Award winners 8T

Scottish video game actresses 8T

British video game actresses 16T
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Marianna Palka

Scottish, Actress

Overview: Marianna Bronislawa Barbara Palka (born 7 September 1981) is a Scottish actress, producer, director, and writer. She is the writer, director and star of the film Good Dick, which screened at the Sundance ...

Date of birth: 7 September 1981

Age: 43

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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21st-century British women photographers 62T

21st-century women photographers 549T

21st-century British screenwriters 195T
3.

Lynne Ramsay

British film director

Overview: Lynne Ramsay (born 5 December 1969) is a Scottish film director, writer, producer, and cinematographer best known for the feature films Ratcatcher (1999), Morvern Callar (2002), We Need to Talk About Kevin ...

Date of birth: 5 December 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Director

Gender: Female

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Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer BAFTA Award winners 17T

WFTV Award winners 52T

Scottish women cinematographers 1T
4.

Charlotte Wells

Scottish filmmaker

Overview: Charlotte Wells (born 13 June 1987) is a Scottish director, writer, and producer. She is known for her feature film debut Aftersun (2022), for which she received a number of accolades, including Gotham ...

Date of birth: 13 June 1987

Age: 37

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Director

Gender: Female

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Film people from Edinburgh 8T

New York University Stern School of Business alumni 243T

Tisch School of the Arts alumni 1,063T
5.

Alison Peebles

British actor, dancer and director

Overview: Alison Peebles (born 1953) is a Scottish actress, director, and writer in theatre, film, and television. She is a co-founder of Communicado, a Scottish theatre company.

Date of birth: 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Female

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20th-century Scottish actresses 66T

21st-century Scottish actresses 66T

British women screenwriters 115T
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Gillian Berrie

Scottish film producer

Overview: Gillian Berrie is a film producer and co-founder of the Glasgow-based production company Sigma Films with director David Mackenzie.

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Film Director

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Scottish film directors 98T

Scottish screenwriters 83T

Scottish film producers 44T
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Jenny Gilbertson

Scottish documentary and educational filmmaker

Overview: Jenny Gilbertson (born Jenny Brown; 28 October 1902 – 8 January 1990) was a Scottish documentary and educational filmmaker.

Date of birth: 28 October 1902

Date of death: 8 January 1990

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Film Director

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Mass media in Shetland 13T

Women documentary filmmakers 402T

Women in Film (pioneers) 168T
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Catriona MacInnes

Scottish, Film Director

Overview: Catriona MacInnes is a Scottish film-maker. A graduate of MFA (Advanced Film Practice), Screen Academy Scotland, her graduation film ("I'm In Away From Here") was nominated for the Golden Lion Award in ...

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Film Director

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Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

Scottish film directors 85T
9.

Kerry Anne Mullaney

British film director, writer and producer

Overview: Kerry Anne Mullaney (born 9 October 1975) is a Scottish film director, writer and producer. She won the 2009 Best Director (Silver Unicorn) award at the 10th Estepona International Horror and Fantasy Film ...

Date of birth: 9 October 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Female

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Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art 284T

Horror film directors 488T

Scottish film directors 85T
10.

May Miles Thomas

British screenwriter/director

Overview: May Miles Thomas is a Scottish film director and screenwriter.

Date of birth: 15 January 1959

Age: 66

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Film Director

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British women screenwriters 115T

People educated at Hillhead High School 33T

Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art 264T
11.

Nicola Black

Scottish, Film Director

Overview: Nicola Jane Black (born in Glasgow) is an award winning Scottish film and television producer and director. Her work includes the documentaries Designer Vaginas, Bone Breakers, When Freddie Mercury Met ...

Date of birth: 3 May 1965

Age: 60

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Female

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British women television producers 149T

Women documentary filmmakers 402T

Women television producers 947T
12.

Diane Bell (director)

American screenwriter and filmmaker

Overview: Diane Bell is a Scottish-born filmmaker and writer who works and resides in Los Angeles.

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film/TV Producer

Gender: Female

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Sue Bourne

Scottish television documentary producer and director

Overview: Sue Bourne (born December 1953) is an award-winning Scottish television documentary producer and director. She founded and runs the independent production company Wellpark Productions, which has produced ...

Date of birth: December 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Film Director

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Sara Ishaq

Filmmaker

Overview: Sara Ishaq is a Scottish-Yemeni film maker. Ishaq was born on 29 May 1984 in Edinburgh, before moving back to Yemen at the age of two. She grew up in Sana’a, Yemen until the age of 17. She returned to ...

Date of birth: 29 May 1984

Age: 40

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Film Director

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Scottish people of Yemeni descent 1T

21st-century Yemeni women 11T

21st-century Yemeni people 14T
15.

Eleanor Yule

Scottish, Film Director

Overview: Eleanor Yule is an award-winning Scottish film director, best known for her feature film Blinded and her television documentaries with Michael Palin. She also directed Ghost Stories for Christmas a TV ...

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Film Director

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Academics of Falmouth University 5T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

Alumni of the University of the West of Scotland 23T
16.

Jackie Oudney

Scottish, Film Director

Overview: Jackie Oudney, is a British film and commercials director.

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Film Director

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Alumni of National Film and Television School 65T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

Scottish film directors 85T
17.

Margaret Tait

British filmmaker, writer, poet

Overview: Margaret Caroline Tait (11 November 1918 – 16 April 1999) was a Scottish medical doctor, filmmaker and poet.

Date of birth: 11 November 1918

Date of death: 1999

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Female

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20th-century British women writers 1,321T

Scottish women medical doctors 68T

20th-century Scottish poets 107T